It's official! This is the new home of Theatreforum.com

So far this seems to be the smoothest theatrical relocation since Shakespeare nicked The Theatre and moved it to Bankside

Thanks to everyone in the community who made this a successful transfer!
(I feel like I'm making an awards speech!)

Thank you to everyone who made this happen. A huge success.

Sorry if this is a really simple thing... Is there a setting I need to change to make sure when I click on a thread that it takes me to the last reply I've read? At the moment it goes to page one each time for each thread. Thanks.

There's a "New" label marking threads that have new posts since your last visit. Clicking on that label takes you to the first new post.

If you mean that you read only a part of a thread on your last visit, and didn't read to the end of the thread at that time, there is no function to remind you where you got to!

Need help. I cannot log in to the site on the desktop version on my Mac. Every time I enter my username & password it takes me back to the main page & im still logged in as a guest. As I cannot log in I cannot post using the desktop version.

I'm using a Mac & Safari as my browser.

Are you trying to log in to www.theatreboard.co.uk? If so, try theatreboard.proboards.com instead.

Hi Matthew. The main reason everyone is over here is that every time people do post over at the old place, we are advised to move over. We could of had a much more gradual move over, but in a way its better we are hear and finding out the issues before we launch properly and become a bigger site.

What I would say is are you looking at new forum options, such as regional, international and opera?

An opera site is definitely worth whilst. What I would say is an international page would (a unclutter the plays and musicals section and (b make it clear we are not just a UK theatre site making a more diverse experience. We are well over 90% uk and we should be trying to attract users of other sites such as Broadwayworld. I don't agree that we should be like the old site or even trying to copy it. We are setting up a home for ourselves. These sections have been asked for multiple times, therefore should be properly considered. I had hoped our new moderation team would of tried to look at how we could improve ourselves and not simply aimed to be a clone of the old site. After all we are not the whats on stage forum anymore and waiting until we attract new users in some ways is too late. Marketing this site should be done that we an inclusive board. At the moment I would say we are heavily West End orientated with very little regional or international discussion. Its a shame we haven't tried to adapt to new markets. 

It would of been nice if this discussion could of been held publicly, with a discussion between the community. Especially as it is just that, a community.

*would have

I'm happier with boards being separated by genre rather than location; as a primarily London theatre-goer, it wouldn't occur to me to go into, say, a Bristol board, and I'm not entirely sure a Bristol board would get used that much, but if an interesting-sounding play gets discussed in the Plays board then I might decide to make a trip to Bristol to see it. It puts the discussions right where people are automatically going to look and could get some brilliant discussion going, much better than squirrelling them away into a board where only three people are going to regularly look and run out of things to say very quickly. Also it saves confusion when something goes on tour - "do we talk about it in Guildford? Oh get a grip we already discussed this one in Leicester. Why have you started a thread in Newcastle when we've already started one in Birmingham? Etc etc".

Thats the point though Baemax, you are just that a London theatre goer. I live in Edinburgh and there is so little chat about any of the regional theatre I see or travel to see. We are West End centric which means we aren't a truly inclusive board. A regional section will encourage more chat about shows not staged in London.

We could also use plays/musicals and then subcategories them into West End, Fringe, Regional or international. Its important the board grows and attract new users. I would be very disappointed if we didn't at least try and attract Opera users by creating an Opera category.